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... Cabinet determine the policies of the govern- ment . No one doubts that the English Cabinet is an in- stitution , though it is unknown to the law , and though its conferences are as secret as those of the Vatican . But we have not seen ...
... Cabinet determine the policies of the govern- ment . No one doubts that the English Cabinet is an in- stitution , though it is unknown to the law , and though its conferences are as secret as those of the Vatican . But we have not seen ...
Page 93
... Cabinet and the fixing of its responsibility . In America the situation is confusing because we have so many interacting systems and because the mechanism of the government that is described by the Constitution does not easily lend ...
... Cabinet and the fixing of its responsibility . In America the situation is confusing because we have so many interacting systems and because the mechanism of the government that is described by the Constitution does not easily lend ...
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... Cabinet is not a party council but a meet- ing of administrators . In England the party machine— though the law does not see it - is frankly in possession of the government . In America the national party mechanism is organized outside ...
... Cabinet is not a party council but a meet- ing of administrators . In England the party machine— though the law does not see it - is frankly in possession of the government . In America the national party mechanism is organized outside ...
Page 147
... those who have been governors of states or members of cabinets . And yet even they are chosen for their respective offices generally by reason of a kind of fitness and availability which does not neces- THE PRESIDENT 147.
... those who have been governors of states or members of cabinets . And yet even they are chosen for their respective offices generally by reason of a kind of fitness and availability which does not neces- THE PRESIDENT 147.
Page 148
... cabinet officers were regarded as in the natural line of succession to the presidency . Mr. Jefferson had been in General Washington's cabinet , Mr. Madison in Mr. Jefferson's , Mr. Monroe in Mr. Madison's ; and generally it was the ...
... cabinet officers were regarded as in the natural line of succession to the presidency . Mr. Jefferson had been in General Washington's cabinet , Mr. Madison in Mr. Jefferson's , Mr. Monroe in Mr. Madison's ; and generally it was the ...
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Page 41 - The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger...
Page 44 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law; a law which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Page 329 - ... for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, the German peoples included; for the rights of nations great and small and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience. The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Page 255 - As men whose intentions require no concealment generally employ the words which most directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed our Constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said.
Page 156 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, until changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Page 327 - A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic nations. No autocratic Government could be trusted to keep faith within it or observe its covenants.
Page 263 - Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the Constitution, is void.
Page 163 - I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion it is unnecessary, and would be unwise to extend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.
Page 24 - That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, executive, and judiciary.
Page 157 - It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another.